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PLoP: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html jaclaz

Well, well, CrazyDoctor does have a fancy for "mission impossible" thingies.... First thing, DON'T even think of using that cracked CD in a modern drive. I have (and dearly care for) a SCSI 1x drive, one of those with caddies to try this kind of CD recovery. And NO, you won't get anyhting from that CD. JFYI: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2172 jaclaz

As long as it is possible to run XP with 8 MHz & 20 MB: http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm why wouldn't 7 run with 128? Original MS requirements (the ones that you have to at least DOUBLE to have a responsive system ): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sysreqs/pro.mspx XP:300 Mhz & 128Mb RAM http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/system-requirements.aspx 7:1 Ghz & 1 Gb RAM Now: 20/128=÷1/6 128/1024=÷1/8 So, theoretically it shouldn't be possible, right? NO, wrong: AFAIK we are "stuck" at 96 Mb: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/windows-7-runs-on-a-pentium-ii-with-96mb-ram-20090622/ Or maybe at 64 : http://forum.thewindowsclub.com/136774-post37.html The next question is "Is it smart?" (and everyone can answer this one ) jaclaz

Huge bump, I know , but I just found some info about Diamond Compression. There is also an introoductory page on MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/124613/en-us jaclaz diamond.txt Diamond.htm

What happens if you tell it to show ALL drives? jaclaz

Yep , just asking if there is anything else. You might want to notice how the KB931854, besides the utter unusefulness of the proposed workaround: as well as the incipit: are WRONG! What edborg reported in the linked to thread is that the same happened by ONLY changing the Active status of an existing partition , in other words in order to change a single byte from 00 to 80 or viceversa the stooopid XP disk management created havoc! jaclaz

I'll try checking with the "usual suspects" : http://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/ http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=81068&st=8 Just for the record, should anyone among the less "technical oriented" members need to extract the ME files from XP/2K3 in order to do some experimenting, this may come of use: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16745 jaclaz

Yep, just for the record: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9897&hl= if you happen to find the actual link on MS, I would appreciate it. jaclaz

Yep , but that assumes that the OS currently on the laptop is working, that a phantomatic free and online partitioning program exists, that the actual running system is Windows (which one?),etc. etc. The problem is that we miss this info: What OS is the laptop running? Is it currently booting/running? Can it connect to a LAN? Is there a floppy disk? Is the USB functional (even if not bootable from)? The easiest would be if there is some way to copy a few kbytes to the machine AND it is running an OS, to try using PLoP. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=140412 jaclaz

Well, you didn't mention you were using an encrypted partition. The bad news are that most probably you won't recover anything. The good news are that you learned two lessons: NEVER use encrypted volumes unless you really, really need them (like you are a spy, a police officer, an outlaw or a political activist, or, in other words, you have actual, compelling and unavoidable security concerns) always, always, ALWAYS backup the data (no matter if encrypted or not) and, if using encrypted thingies, backup at least the needed parts for recovery I wouldn't be surprised that the thing that "triggered" the MS tool was the byte scheme derived by the encryption. jaclaz

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Press "c" to get to grub4dos command line, in it type: root (hd0, [TAB] Post feedback from grub4dos. jaclaz

Is this intended to be news? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=31465&st=17 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=87583 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=96614 Or a way to appreciate the work done by members here? NO NEED WHATSOEVER to double post. (posts merged) SEARCH before posting. jaclaz

It is possible: http://forum.hddguru.com/1tb-seagate-hdd-does-not-spin-firmware-sd81-t12290.html but since from what you say the behaviour changed, my guess is still in bad contacts/uncorrect procedure. Try again from scratch using this guide (if you used the Gradius/Aviko one) - (insulating motor contacts): http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html Or use the Gradius/Aviko ones (this thread) - (insulating head contacts) - if you used the above. jaclaz

DON'T PANIC! If all that happened is a MBR wipe, TESTDISK will be able to recover the partritions allright. Since there are now confirmed reports that the filter drivers work allright under 7, it is very possible you did actually get a MBR virus of some kind: jaclaz

The flashing cursor problem is usually related/connected with unbalanced (or alltogether "wrong") CHS/LBA settings. The HP USB utility is known to produce this effect. The RMPREPUSB has more or less a zillion ways you can format something with, and it can also depend on the filesystem you used. Since the problem is happening when you switch from a 512 Mb to a bigger CF card, being roughly 512 Mb the first CHS limit, it is also well possible that the BIOS doesn't handle properly bigger sizes or LBA. The usual advice applies: FORGET about the HP utility Post EXACT details on how you used RMPREPUSB, including ALL options chosen and filesystem type jaclaz

It seems pretty much like a non-target : @UzY3L Sometimes it happens because of BAD contacts (not enough current passing through): http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=142565 or because you used a too thick cardboard/whatever and a pin is slightly bent. Check contacts and try again. jaclaz

I didn't think about the PM/AM but I seem like not being able to have it in the %Time% . Is there a space between hh.mm.ss.hs and "AM" or "PM"? Another attempt: SET NOW=%Time% SET SEPS4=%NOW% FOR /L %%# IN (0,1,9) DO SET SEPS4=!SEPS4:%%#=! Like in Sherlock Holmes' famous quote : A "trailing" separator like A,P, or M won't make any harm. Obviously if one sets the / in hh/mm/ss/hs as a number he truly deserves a failing batch! And another one: SET NOW=%Time% SET SEPS5=%NOW% FOR %%# IN ( A M P ) DO SET SEPS5=!SEPS5:%%#=! SET SEPS5=%Now:~-6,1%%Now:~-3,1% jaclaz

title WinXP Pro SP3 configfile /An_extremely_complex_set_of_entries.lst jaclaz

If you can guarantee that each delimiter is positioned in those exact locations within the time variable, for all languages/formats then I can see its merits! NO, unfortunately it's NOT guaranteed . The setting is in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\iTime 0=24 hour clock 1=12 hour clock (which doesn't make a difference) And in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\iTLZero 0=NO leading zero 1=Leading zero (which DOES make a difference) But then, if using REG.EXE, one could get the hh/mm/ss separator from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\sTime The GOOD news, is that if we go "backwards", that won't be a problem : SET SEPS=%Time:~-3,1%%Time:~-6,1% I don't think there is ANY settings in which the Time gets a different format from: "(H)H/MM/SS/hs" whatever the / can be. jaclaz

Sure . Like in : @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL SET SEPS=%Time:~2,1%%Time:~8,1% SET SEPS jaclaz

Sorry if I chime in WITHOUT having directly experimented with the thingy, but I have a few questions that maybe rloew can answer to: I assume that inside the compressed IO.SYS there is some code to decompress on-the-fly, and that you managed to rebuild it externally to create your decompressor, right? Knowing how MS loves to re-use code, I presume that the actual compression is done thorugh one of their known tools, possibly slightly modified, maybe if we can identify the tool, it would be possible to create a re-compressor? jaclaz

Yep , the idea was just that you don't actually *need* a .vbs (and a temp file ) since you already have the %Time% variable, nor you *need* those calls with a big number of parameters, even if you are going to use subs/call, by initially converting the time in a "seconds-based-serial", you can have a single parameter that comprises all the needed info for each "timestamp". jaclaz

What happens instead? Like, nothing, a flashing cursor an error messsage (which?) white text on black background, an error message (which?) white text on blue background? Do files: NTLDR BOOT.INI NTDETECT.COM exist in root of the hard disk? If no, add them there, if yes which are the contents of that BOOT.INI? jaclaz

As said, this one : http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-ECO-desktop-fan-from-old-computer-pa/ jaclaz